Adam Mansbach Quotes
It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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I'm not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.
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It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
